Injection Molding Lab

Contact Person

Dr.-Ing Volker Piotter

DI Klaus Plewa

The laboratory is located at Campus North:

• Building 681

Colleagues

Peter Holzer
Heinz Walter
DHBW student (partially)

R+D Focal Points

• Powder injection molding (PIM)
• Special variants of injection molding technology, a.o.
  • multi component (powder) injection molding,
  • injection compression molding
  • PIM inmold labeling
• Micro Injection Molding
• Characterization of injection molding polymers and PIM-feedstocks
• Simulation des (Pulver-)spritzgießprozesses

Equipment

• Injection molding machine Arburg 420C
• Injection molding machine Arburg 470A
• Micro injection molding machine battenfeld MS 50
• Micro injection molding machine Battenfeld MS 50 (two component)

All machines can be equipped with special PIM-units, tool evacuation, variothermal temperization etc.

• Rheometer Goettfert Rheograph 25
• pvT measuring instrument Goettfert PVT 500
• SIGMASOFT^® Virtual Molding software tool for simulation of (powder) injection molding process